Here's the thing though...he didn't show his racist side instantly...it happened overtime.
And yes this brings me a fukkton load of shame and this is why I'm not as willing to befriend white people before in the past in terms of now and why we drifted apart as I started to hang out with more black and Spanish people in brooklyn.
I was friends with this dude from way back in the day. Knew him from 2007. Graffiti writer, I met some graffiti writers through this guys that were way more well known from him...he moved in next door to me when I was living in Pittsburgh in Oakland when I was a student at Pitt.
He was one of those wigger types that loved graffiti and hip hop and was bumping every damn rapper you could think of and was about electronic music so we had some common bond. He moved to the burgh from Boston. We did some DJ gigs together, he was a guest on my radio show I was doing on WRCT 88.3fm in 2009. He voted for Obama (which is why the 180 in personity change was surprising to say the least). Basic he was this hipster type but he wasn't on some overt racist shyt...he went out of his way to surround himself with mad black people mad Asian people mad Spanish people and Indians and stuff..like before he was one of those people that you could say was cool. He smoked weed never got bad vibes from him.
So then as I graduated from Pitt in 2012 I found out he was moving to NYC. And I was trying to move to NYC to to make an attempt (keyword "attempt") to further my music career. I ended up linking up with him cause he had a spare room in a place in Bushwick cause his friend was moving to SF so I took up the opportunity and moved in.
This apartment was four blocks away from Bossa Nova Civic Club, and I would end up working there 3 years later simply because I knew everybody that worked there and hung out there...I was a regular.
He would go to this club with us a couple of times, but I was going there to network with DJs and producers and try to fish my music to industry people and hobknob with high society and shyt...I ended up dating an actress who was on TV and shyt cause if hanging out there...but fukk humble bragging...
He was trying to get ahead with his music but he didn't have the same drive as me...I was producing music all the time and making mixes when I wasn't working and he was jealous that I was getting places with my music and meeting more people in New York while he just festered in stagnation and mediocrity.
He really didn't start going full blown racist until he moved out of the apartment we lived at on wyckoff in Ridgewood.
When he moved back to North Carolina...he started doing the online email text harassment and started becoming mad racist online.
This was the side that people weren't really seeing until later on...like this didn't happen instantly...this was a gradual personal regression in behavior that started to push people away from him overtime.